Hey folks! This is my second Fralin Tele bridge pickup. About ten years ago a bought a set of Callaham / Fralin Tele pickups and I’ve loved them ever since. When it came time to piece together partscaster I wanted something a little more aggressive and the good folks at Fralin directed me towards the High Output Tele bridge. I was a little nervous because I hadn’t liked too many overly hot pickups because they usually sound too mid forward, many are overly compressed and lack dynamic and harmonic complexity. Let me assure everyone, that isn’t the case with this. While the High Output shares many of the Callaham / Fralin bridge like dynamics, and instantly addictive it differs from the Callaham / Fralin because it’s not as scooped in the mids and it has a tendency to break up a little faster; exactly what I was looking for. If I have to choose one word to describe the High Output I’d have to go with “more”. Take what you love from Fralin Tele pickups and just add more. Like the Callaham / Fralin Tele bridge pickup it twang and deliver nice sparkling cleans but once you goose it it’s like parting while on your second bottle of mescal, it’s dirty, mean and it’ll start to pick fights with P90s. Great stuff.
